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Old 01-25-2017, 05:11 AM   #26
AnselmD
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Just use a user agent switcher for firefox/chrome to send an IE user agent for amaon. But generally speaking, given that amazon is doing bot detection, there is going to be no robust way to use amazon for bulk metadata downloads.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Every trick calibre implements to try to get around it can be countered leading to a never ending arms race.
I agree, but nevertheless it is only fair not to make bulk metadata download with full speed. So a general way to slow down the access of every metadata downloader plugin makes it "fair". As the description of wget says: "lightens the server load by making the requests less frequent."
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